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  4. April 2026
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Aurora, Colorado · one day

Tuesday 21 April 2026

24 drone flights from Aurora Police Department's published record.

24

drone flights over Aurora that day.

7:59 am

first takeoff; the last was at 11:33 pm.

10 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Aurora police drones flew 24 times on Tuesday 21 April 2026, the first at 7:59 am and the last at 11:33 pm MDT, by Aurora Police Department's published record.

24 drawable flights of 24. Each path is the whole flight, simplified; a flight with a sensitive stated purpose is drawn as an area.
One flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area

Hour by hour

Takeoffs by hour, MDT.

12a1a2a3a4a5a6a7a8a9a10a11a12p1p2p3p4p5p6p7p8p9p10p11p

Why, in the agency's words

  1. Not stated38%
  2. Call for service29%
  3. Other29%
  4. Assisting another agency4%

Flights, in order

24 flights. Those in the latest full month link to their own page; a flight with a sensitive stated purpose has no page of its own.

Takeoff (MDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
7:59 amNot stated8 minAUPD-260
9:23 amCall for service8 minAUPD-260
9:34 amOther10 minAUPD-260
9:46 amCall for service10 minAUPD-260
10:36 amNot stated15 minAUPD-260
11:01 amOther13 minAUPD-260
11:22 amNot stated42 sAUPD-260
11:22 amCall for service4 minAUPD-260
11:38 amCall for service17 minAUPD-260
12:31 pmNot stated13 minAUPD-260
12:47 pmOther16 minAUPD-260
1:24 pmCall for service4 minAUPD-260
1:34 pmCall for service18 minAUPD-260
1:37 pmNot stated9 minAUPD-260
2:31 pmOther9 minAUPD-260
3:25 pmAssisting another agency21 minAUPD-260
4:01 pmOther9 minAUPD-260
4:43 pmNot stated5 minAUPD-260
5:56 pmNot stated10 minAUPD-260
6:30 pmNot stated19 minAUPD-260
9:27 pmNot stated15 minAUPD-260
9:55 pmOther17 minAUPD-260
10:14 pmOther17 minAUPD-260
11:33 pmCall for service10 minAUPD-260

How this page is made

  • Every flight in the agency's published record is counted and listed; drawn paths are the whole flight, simplified to 10 m.
  • The record's free-text description is never read into a page. A flight whose stated purpose names a domestic, sexual-assault, kidnapping, welfare, mental-health or juvenile matter is listed like any other but drawn as a generalised area, not a path.
  • Operators are the agency's own accounts in the record, numbered within the agency in order of first flight; no name or address is read into a page.
  • Purposes are the agency's own words, grouped into classes by a committed lookup table; unmatched values are "Other" and blank ones "Not stated".
  • Times are converted to the agency's clock through the IANA zone database, never a fixed offset.
  • A day is the agency's local calendar day of takeoff.

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